It's not a record most people may have heard of, but a Milwaukee soldier now owns the world record for running a mile while wearing a fully functional bomb disposal suit weighing more than 75 pounds.

1st Lt. Ashley Sorensen of the 303rd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion, 8th Military Police Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command did the run Monday in 11 minutes, 6 seconds at the University of Hawaii-Manoa track.

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Pending review and formal validation by the Guinness Book of World Records, it will become the official record for fastest female 1-mile run in an EOD bomb disposal suit.

8th Theater Sustainment Command

"Whenever EOD goes out in the bomb suits for a manual approach, it’s really important that we’re able to work and sweat in the suit and still be able perform, so making it a competition when we train helps with that. Running a mile like this is definitely a challenge," Sorensen said in a news release.

Sorensen graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2010, and she serves as her unit’s executive officer based out of Schofield Barracks.